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(Reuters) Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday offered 26 offshore oil and gas blocks in its largest-ever auction of areas for deepwater exploration and production, according to an official notice. The twin-island Caribbean country, Latin America's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), is pushing producers, especially those offshore, to accelerate natural gas output in order... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) Isle of Man-headquartered oil and gas company Challenger Energy Group (CEG) is making progress in setting the stage to embark on a formal farm-out process later this year for a shallow water exploration block off the coast of Uruguay. As the firm is also expected to make up its mind about assets in Trinidad and... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday signed a production sharing agreement (PSA) with a unit of British oil and gas producer BP for exploring and producing natural gas at a shallow water block, the energy ministry said. The agreement follows an offshore bidding round launched by the Caribbean country last year, expected to encourage an... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Trinidad and Tobago selected oil and gas producer Shell as the preferred bidder for a shallow water block, beating out bids from BP and EOG Resources, three people close to the process said. Trinidad and Tobago has in recent years struggled to feed its liquefied natural gas and petrochemical plants as its natural gas... Continue Reading →
(OE) BP has entered into an agreement with Perenco T&T to divest its Immortelle, Flamboyant, Amherstia and Cashima offshore gas fields and associated production facilities, as well the undeveloped resources from the Parang field in Trinidad and Tobago. BP Trinidad and Tobago operates and currently is the sole owner in each of the assets included... Continue Reading →
(offshore-energy.biz) U.S. offshore engineering and construction player McDermott has been tasked with putting all the pieces in place for the development of a gas project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, thanks to an engineering, procurement, construction, installation (EPCI), hook-up, and commissioning contract with Shell Trinidad and Tobago Limited, a subsidiary of the UK-headquartered... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Venezuela on Wednesday granted a 20-year license to British energy producer BP and state-owned National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) to develop the Venezuelan side of a natural gas field that extends into the Caribbean country's waters. Venezuela, whose gas reserves are mostly untapped, has in recent years expanded offers for offshore... Continue Reading →
(OE) Shell Trinidad and Tobago, a subsidiary of Shell, has taken Final Investment Decision (FID) on the Manatee project, an undeveloped gas field in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA) in Trinidad and Tobago. Manatee will allow Shell to competitively grow its Integrated Gas business by building on development efforts in the ECMA, one of... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) British oil major BP and Trinidad and Tobago's state energy firm NGC have received a two-year license from the U.S. Treasury Department to negotiate and develop the Cocuina-Manakin gas fields with Venezuela, Trinidad's energy minister said on Wednesday. Washington last month did not renew a broad license that had allowed Venezuela to freely export... Continue Reading →
(Reuters) Oil major BP and U.S. shale producer EOG Resources are in discussions to jointly develop a natural gas field off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, the British company said. The field holds just under 1 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas, but will eventually be tied back to another BP discovery, bringing... Continue Reading →
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